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Today Fujitsu announced a contract to upgrade the Australia's fastest supercomputer at NCI. Called "Gadi," the new supercomputer will replace the NCI's current supercomputer, Raijin, which was also provided by Fujitsu back in 2012. "The upgrade of this critical infrastructure will see Australia continue to play a leading role in addressing some of our greatest global challenges. This new machine will keep Australian research and the 5,000 researchers who use it at the cutting-edge."The post Fujitsu to Deploy Gadi Supercomputer at NCI in Australia appeared first on insideHPC.

The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2019) has published its Speaker Agenda. The event will take place from August 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio. "MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators to share their experience and knowledge and learn from each other. The event includes Keynote Talks, Invited Tutorials, Invited Talks, Contributed Presentations, Open MIC session, hands-on sessions MVAPICH developers, etc."The post Agenda Posted: MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting in Ohio appeared first on insideHPC.

Piotr Balcer and Cheng Xu from Intel gave this talk at the 2019 Spark+AI Summit. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory breaks the traditional memory/storage hierarchy and scales up the computing server with higher capacity persistent memory. Also it brings higher bandwidth & lower latency than storage like SSD or HDD. And Apache Spark is widely used in the analytics like SQL and Machine Learning on the cloud environment."The post Accelerate Your Apache Spark with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory appeared first on insideHPC.

D.E. Shaw Research is seeking and HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure for a New York–based interdisciplinary research group. Ideal candidates should have strong fundamental knowledge of Linux concepts such as file systems, networking, and processes in addition to practical experience administering Linux systems."The post Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at DE Shaw Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Marek MagryÅ› from Cyfronet gave this talk at the DDN User Group. "This talk will describe the architecture and implementation of high capacity Lustre file system for the need of a data intensive project. Storage is based on DDN ES7700 building block and uses RDMA over Converged Ethernet as network transport. What is unusual is that the storage system is located over 10 kilometers away from the supercomputer. Challenges, performance benchmarks and tuning will be the main topic of the presentation."The post Video: Lustre, RoCE, and MAN appeared first on insideHPC.

Large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to come up with ways to use existing and near-term quantum processors to solve useful problems despite limitations due to errors or noise. "Now, the Virginia Tech team is devising an algorithm that can more efficiently calculate the properties of molecules on a noisy quantum computer."The post Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing appeared first on insideHPC.

Atos was recently selected by GCS AURAGEN to provide and orchestrate the high-performance computing infrastructure and storage of a new genomic pilot platform for high-flow sequencing calculation. "The Atos solution is designed to support the entire life cycle of genomic data - from DNA sequencing to analysis production."The post Atos Powers HPC for Genomic Pilot Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

Lenovo has deployed the fastest supercomputer in Austria. Installed by EDV-Design at TU Wien, the water cooled Vienna Scientific Cluster 4 (VSC-4) ranks #82 in the TOP500 list. "The compute nodes are directly water cooled allowing to use primary cooling water with a temperature in excess of 43 ℃, permitting year-round free cooling. Up to 90% of the energy will be removed by this high-temperature loop with the remainder being removed by air cooling. This permits a very reasonable energy foot-print."The post VSC-4 from Lenovo is Austria’s most powerful supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Sam Hatfield from the University of Oxford gave this talk at the PASC19 conference. "In this paper, we investigate the use of mixed-precision hardware that supports floating-point operations at double-, single- and half-precision. In particular, we investigate the potential use of the NVIDIA Tensor Core, a mixed-precision matrix-matrix multiplier mainly developed for use in deep learning, to accelerate the calculation of the Legendre transforms in the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), one of the leading global weather forecast models."The post Accelerating High-Resolution Weather Models with Deep-Learning Hardware appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $37 million in funding for targeted research in materials and chemistry to advance the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS). "America was a pioneer in the establishment of the Information Age,” said Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar. “It’s critical that we remain in the forefront of information science and technology, and this new research will help ensure continued U.S. leadership in the information economy in the years ahead.”The post DOE Funds $37 Million for Materials and Chemistry Research in Quantum Information Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Today immersion cooling provider GRC announced a new partnership and licensing agreement with Nihon Form Service (NFS), a Tokyo-based manufacturer of IT and communications equipment. Leveraging GRC’s intellectual property, NFS will help tailor GRC’s immersion cooling products for the Japanese market.The post GRC to Tailor Datacenter Immersion Cooling for Japanese Market appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, ECP Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the Exascale Computing Project. ECP has mission to ensure that a capable exascale computing ecosystem will come to fruition with the arrival of the nation’s first exascale systems. "Enduring legacy translates to having dozens of application technologies that will be used to tackle some of the toughest problems in DOE and the nation, and so the applications are now going to be positioned to address their challenge problems and in many cases help solve them or be a part of the solution."The post Video: Update on the Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using Deep Learning techniques on DOE supercomputers to help develop fusion energy. "Unlike classical machine learning methods, FRNN—the first deep learning code applied to disruption prediction—can analyze data with many different variables such as the plasma current, temperature, and density. Using a combination of recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks, FRNN observes thousands of experimental runs called “shots,” both those that led to disruptions and those that did not, to determine which factors cause disruptions."The post AI Approach Points to Bright Future for Fusion Energy appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature from the SC19 Blog, Ryan Quick from Providentia Worldwide calls for a conference program that reflects more sharing across disciplines. "For me, HPC is about delivering answers to hard questions – right now. It’s about an inclusive and integrative approach to computing. And it’s exciting. If we can put aside our differences and allow ourselves to learn a little. We will gain a lot. I promise. See you in Denver."The post High Performance Systems: An “Open Plan” for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

The performance of distributed memory MPI applications on the latest highly parallel multi-core processors often turns out to be lower than expected. Which is why hybrid applications using OpenMP multithreading on each node and MPI across nodes in a cluster are becoming more common. This sponsored post from Intel, written by Richard Friedman, depicts how to boost performance for hybrid applications with multiple endpoints in the Intel MPI Library.The post Multiple Endpoints in the Latest Intel MPI Library Boosts Hybrid Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Globus research data management service announced the general availability of Globus for Box, a new solution for seamlessly connecting Box with an organization’s existing research storage ecosystem. "The Box connector is a valuable addition to our Globus subscription, since it will let our users easily plug Box into their existing ecosystem of research data storage systems,” said Doug Johnson, chief systems architect and HPC systems group manager, Ohio Supercomputer Center.The post Globus Integrates with Box Cloud Content Management appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, the Hyperion Research team describes how the company helps customers make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. "Our industry experts are the former IDC high performance computing analyst team, which remains intact and continues all of its global activities. The group is comprised of the world’s most respected HPC industry analysts who have worked together for more than 25 years."The post Video: Hyperion Research – Market Insight for HPC & AI appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dan Olds interviews the overall winners of the ISC 2019 Student Cluster Competition from CHPC in South Africa. "With this win, CHPC has now taken home the ISC Overall Championship an astounding four times, pulling even with Tsinghua in number of ISC championships. CHPC also maintained their record of reaching the podium in each of their seven cluster competition outings."The post Meet the Winners of the Student Cluster Competition from CHPC in South Africa appeared first on insideHPC.

Registration is now open for the HPC User Forum at Argonne National Lab. "Our global steering committee representing leading HPC centers has worked with Hyperion Research to provide a powerful agenda representing key trends at the forefront of government, academic and private sector HPC use around the world. You'll hear about recent developments in the exascale race, architectures, HPDA-AI, smart cities, cloud computing, industrial-commercial HPC and other important topics."The post Registration Opens for September HPC User Forum at Argonne appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Brent Gorda provides an update on the progress on Arm HPC from the ISC 2019 conference in Frankfurt. "From the perspective of Arm in HPC, it was an excellent event with several high-profile announcements that caught everyone’s attention. The Arm ecosystem was well represented with our partners visible on the show floor and around town."The post Video: Arm HPC Update from ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Dave Larsen describes how to configure Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for best performance. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a revolutionary technology that combines memory-like performance with the capacity and data persistence of storage. It enables new possibilities for in-memory analytics, databases, HPC, high-density virtualization, AI and more."The post Configuring Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for Best Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at inherently hybrid nature of quantum computing applications. "If you’re always going to have to mix classical code with quantum code then you need an environment that is built for that workflow, and thus we see a lot of attention given to that in the QIS (Quantum Information Science) area. This is reminiscent of OpenGL for graphics accelerators and OpenCL/CUDA for compute accelerators."The post Podcast: Quantum Applications are Always Hybrid appeared first on insideHPC.

Univa is hosting a series of Cloud Meetups September through October in nine cities. "Come and spend a few hours to learn about how to avoid the pitfalls of migrating HPC workloads to the cloud. We will showcase new technology that is designed to replace and automate manual processes. The Meetups exhibit best practice approaches to hybrid and dedicated cloud clusters. Recent survey results of HPC cloud spend will be discussed."The post Learn about Migrating HPC Workloads at Univa Cloud Meetups appeared first on insideHPC.

EPCC, Hartree Centre, and the University of Reading are the first to join the NVIDIA AI Technology Center, which provides a collaborative community for world-class talent driving AI adoption and excellence across the UK. "We want to be able to leverage the rapid advances of large-scale machine learning to help traditional supercomputing applications," said Mark Parsons, EPCC director and associate dean of e-research."The post NVIDIA Launches U.K. Technology Center to Advance AI Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Burak Yenier from the UberCloud gave this talk at the High Performance Container Workshop at ISC 2019. "This workshop will outline the current state of Linux Containers, what challenges are hindering the adoption in HPC/BigData and how containers can foster improvements when applied to the field of HPC, Big Data and AI in the mid- and long-term."The post Video: UberCloud Containers on Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.

James Coomer gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting in Frankfurt. "EXA5 brings our customers a whole new level of experience based on the Lustre filesystem. With huge performance boosts, better scaling properties and a strong appliance approach, this is Lustre like you’ve never seen it before. Fully featured, native file management, strong security, data integrity, container integration and a load more. James will talk about the major new features in EXA5 and about how we manage flash for complex and difficult use cases."The post DDN EXA 5: Innovation at Scale appeared first on insideHPC.

An effort within the Exascale Computing Project is developing a QMC methods software named QMCPACK to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the quantum level. The ultimate aim is to achieve an unprecedented and systematically improvable accuracy by leveraging the memory and power capabilities of the forthcoming exascale computing systems.The post Supercomputing Complex Materials with QMCPACK appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from PASC19, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich describes how PASC19 has grown into an international conference with over 60 percent of attendees from outside Switzerland. After that, he describes a new groundbreaking programming model his team is developing that centers around the minimization of data movement for computation.The post PASC19 Evolves into an International Conference on Computational Science appeared first on insideHPC.

Would you like to manage and develop a state-of-the-art HPC facility to help enable cutting-edge biomedical research? We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Computing Administrator to join us at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR). The KIR is a world-class research centre that is situated between the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford.The post Job of the Week: Research Computing Administrator at University of Oxford appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, Tom Evans, technical lead for ECP's Energy Applications projects, shares about the motivations, progress, and aspirations on the path to the exascale. "Evans describes the unprecedented calculations expected at the exascale, the example of taking wind energy simulations much further, and the movement toward the use of more-general-purpose programming tools."The post Podcast: How Exascale Computing Could Help Boost Energy Production appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin looks back at the first moon landing with help from a reenactment powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs with real-time ray tracing technology. "The result: a beautiful, near-cinematic depiction of one of history’s great moments. That’s thanks to NVIDIA RTX GPUs, which allowed our demo team to create an interactive visualization that incorporates light in the way it actually works, giving the scene uncanny realism."The post Video: Reliving the First Moon Landing with NVIDIA RTX real-time Ray Tracing appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, researchers describe how they are using the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA to figure out the effects of a changing climate on the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. "We couple the atmosphere model to the ocean because tropical cyclones get their energy from the warm, near-surface waters. We wanted to see what is the effect of climate-induced changes in the ocean on the storms themselves when we go to a fully coupled, high-resolution climate model configuration.”The post Simulating Hurricanes with the Blue Waters Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

The SUSE announced that it has joined the iRODS Consortium, the foundation that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) data management software. "SUSE has a rich history of Linux distribution and open source support, and partnering with them will allow iRODS to make even deeper connections throughout the open source community,” said Jason Coposky, Executive Director, iRODS Consortium. “SUSE Enterprise Storage integrated with iRODS’ data management capabilities creates a compelling and comprehensive solution stack.”The post SUSE joins iRODS Consortium appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Ian Lumb from Sylabs describes containerization was Fueling Innovation at ISC 2019. "Interest in containerization has never been stronger. Although there’s much to extract from ISC19, even if you weren’t able to attend the event, there are alternative approaches for accelerating your uptake of this secure, performant, and portable technology that also ensures reproducibility."The post Why Containerization was Key to Fueling Innovation at ISC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Michael Feldman of The Next Platform and Florina Ciorba of University of Basel look back on ISC 2019. "ISC 2019 brought together 3,573 HPC practitioners and enthusiasts interested in high performance computing, storage, networking, and AI. The theme of this year's conference was Fueling Innovation."The post Video: A Full Week of Fueling Innovation at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a new projections from Hyperion Research that has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, in 5 years. "The industry is hitting on all cylinders, benefiting from the Exascale race, AI coming to the enterprise, and it’s customary slow but always steady growth. The big news continues to be AI fundamentally bringing HPC closer to the mainstream of enterprise computing whether it is on-prem, in a co-location facility, or in a public cloud."The post Podcast: HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years appeared first on insideHPC.

Fangli Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography in China gave this talk at PASC19. "In this interdisciplinary dialogue we will address such questions as – what is state-of-the-art in numerical ocean modeling? And what are the current trends in model improvement? We will consider several applications of the surface wave-tide-circulation coupled numerical ocean model, such as nuclear radiation spread prediction following damage to the Fukushima Nuclear Power in 2011, and the rescue of lives at sea after boats capsized near Phuket in 2018."The post Real-World Applications in Numerical Ocean Modeling appeared first on insideHPC.

Over at the SC19 blog, Christine Baissac-Hayden writes that seven candidates have been chosen for the Women in IT Networking at SC program. "Since 2015, the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program has supported talented early-to-mid career women who help build the ephemeral high-speed network that powers the annual SC Conference."The post Women in IT Networking team to help build SCinet at SC19 appeared first on insideHPC.

"Micron's automata processor (AP) exploits massively parallel in-memory processing capability of DRAM for executing NFAs and hence, it can provide orders of magnitude performance improvement compared to traditional architectures. This paper presents a survey of techniques that propose architectural optimizations to AP and use it for accelerating problems from various application domains such as bioinformatics, data-mining, network security, natural language, high-energy physics, etc."The post New Paper Surveys Micron’s Automata Processor appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from ISC 2019, Marc Lehrer from GigaIO describes the company's innovative HPC interconnect technology based on PCIe Gen 4. "For your most demanding workloads, you want time to solution. The GigaIO hyper-performance network breaks the constraints of old architectures, opening up new configuration possibilities that radically reduces system cost and protect your investment by enabling you to easily adopt new compute or business processes."The post GigaIO Steps Up with PCIe Gen 4 Interconnect for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

SDSC has been awarded a five-year grant from the NSF valued at $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly dependent upon heterogeneous and distributed resources. “As a standalone system, Expanse represents a substantial increase in the performance and throughput compared to our highly successful, NSF-funded Comet supercomputer. But with innovations in cloud integration and composable systems, as well as continued support for science gateways and distributed computing via the Open Science Grid, Expanse will allow researchers to push the boundaries of computing and answer questions previously not possible.”The post NSF Funds $10 Million for ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer at SDSC appeared first on insideHPC.

Last week, Data Vortex Technologies hosted the Texas Women in HPC (TXWHPC) PechaKucha Summer Mixer at their Austin headquarters. A wide selection of topics was presented, ranging from quantum entanglement to the analysis of novels with software. "It’s very exciting to see a younger generation of women reaching out and engaging their peers in the field,” says Data Vortex CEO and TXWHPC Co-Chair Carolyn Devany. “Our industry is one that drives forward so much of human development – it is pivotal that inclusive representation is made a priority.”The post Data Vortex hosts Texas Women in HPC Summer Mixer appeared first on insideHPC.

At the DARPA ERI summit this week, Intel Labs director Rich Uhlig unveiled “Pohoiki Beach” – a 64-Loihi Chip Neuromorphic system capable of simulating eight million neurons. Now available to the broader research community, the Pohoiki Beach enables researchers to experiment with Intel’s brain-inspired research chip, Loihi, which applies the principles found in the biological brains to computer architectures.The post Intel Labs Unveils Pohoiki Beach 64-Chip Neuromorphic System appeared first on insideHPC.

Alex Bouzari gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting at ISC 2019. "In this rapidly changing landscape of HPC, DDN brings fresh innovation with the stability and support experience you need. Stay in front of your challenges with the most reliable long term partner in data at scale."The post DDN: Innovating to Create a Brighter Future for AI, HPC, and Big Data appeared first on insideHPC.

The European Commission is planning to tackle the challenges of big data processing with the Evolve Project as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. Evolve aims to take concrete steps in bringing the big data, high-performance computing, and cloud computing technology into a testbed that will increase researchers ability to extract value from massive and demanding datasets. This could impact the way that big data applications by enabling researchers to process large amounts of data much faster.The post Evolve Project in the EU to Tackle Big Data Processing appeared first on insideHPC.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an essential business and research tool, providing valuable new insights into corporate data and delivering those insights with high velocity and accuracy. While these AI capabilities add significant value to our lives, they are the most demanding workloads in modern computing history. Download the new report from Bright Computing to explore how NVIDIA DGX and Bright Cluster Manager are designed to deliver more of what AI infrastructure users need.The post Exploring Bright Cluster Manager on NVIDIA DGX Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

HPC clusters used for simulation and modeling today in government, academic, and corporate institutions drive scientific discovery and engineering innovation. This sponsored post from Bill Magro, chief technologist for HPC, and HPC solutions lead at Intel Corp., explores how Intel, OEMs, systems integrators, and ISVs partner to reduce deployment barriers through pre-configured and validated HPC systems.The post Faster Path to HPC Enabled with Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Brent Gorda from Arm shares his impressions of ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. "From the perspective of Arm in HPC, it was an excellent event with several high-profile announcements that caught everyone’s attention. The Arm ecosystem was well represented with our partners visible on the show floor and around town."The post Brent Gorda from Arm looks back at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC tours the Tyan booth at ISC 2019. The company exhibited a full line of HPC, storage and cloud computing server platforms. “TYAN’s leading portfolio of HPC, storage and cloud server platforms are based on the 2nd gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and are designed to help enterprises and data center service providers capture, process, and analyze big data faster and at a more powerful rate than ever before.”The post Video: Tyan Computing Steps Up with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for HPC at ISC 2019 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his first-hand coverage of the Student Cluster Competition at the recent ISC 2019 conference. "The ISC19 Student Cluster Competition in Frankfurt, Germany had one of the closest and most exciting finishes in cluster competition history. The overall winner was decided by just over two percentage points and the margin between third and fourth place was less than a single percentage point."The post ISC 2019 Student Cluster Competition: Day-by-Day Drama, Winners Revealed! appeared first on insideHPC.